Meet Re-Timer, a Weapon to Combat Jet Lag?

Before there were flatbeds and in-flight massages. Now, Australian sleep scientists claim to have developed a new weapon to combat jet lag: a device that resets the body’s internal clock.

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The team at Flinders Universifty say the Re-Timer can help make sluggishness on arrival at airports a thing of the past.

The team at Flinders University in South Australia state say their invention – known as Re-Timer – can help make sluggishness on arrival at airports a thing of the past by mimicking the benefits of sunlight.

With international air travel rising as the emerging middle classes in countries like China and India book overseas trips, airlines and manufacturers see a potentially lucrative opportunity in finding a silver bullet for the tiredness and confusion that often follow a long-haul flight.

While it’s long been known that the brain regulates its sleeping and waking patterns according to sunlight, early devices were unsuitable for air travel because they were too large, required a fixed power source like a wall socket, or needed users to stay in one spot for up to an hour at a time.